Bored of Harringay/Kentish/Temile Threads

[Rhodes]

Lets just use the West Ham v Nottingham Forest programme as a pilot to see how it goes, nobody might be interested so there wouldn't be any point in starting a new thread for the sake of it, Gavin and NeutralFan style. I have PM'd Ian about the possible venture but I can't see him having an objection, I could always offer him a 10% cut of the profits.

[Football Man]

I bid 2p.

[Rhodes]

I'm afraid that there is a reserve price of 50pence, the programme is 39 years old afterall and would be £1.00 if it wasn't for the score on the cover. I see that Terry Hennessey was playing for Forest, I'm sure he is an old favourite of Horace having graced the Baseball Ground.

[Wader]

Ooops. What have I started?

 

Cecil, perhaps others would like to flog their old toot, erm memorabilia as well? I have hundreds of old Spurs programmes dating back to when Cyril Knowles was just a gleam in the Paxton Road mobs eyes.

 

Wembley final and International progs, the prog for the last ever Amateur Cup Final, various and nafarious Leyton Orient tomes including signed ones (Tunji Banjo, Bill Roffey, Johnny Jackson, John Chiedozie etc) as well as an England Leyton Orient flag signed by Barry Hearn. Not to mention a plethora of non-league programmes. Books? oh my god I have a hundred or more of footballers biographies/autobiographies covering dates from the 70's to the present day - all signed from Derek Dougan and Brian Clough to David Beckham and Wayne Rooney (although Cantona never signed anything unless for money - his agent just used a rubber stamp with his name on it!).

 

Signed limited edition prints as well as original shirts adorn every wall of the house (my Mrs puts up with it gawd bless her) -George Best, Ally McCoist, Steve Archibald, Gary Nevilles England shirt (pah!), and heaps more as well as signed footballs and various cups.

 

However, I'm not certain this forum is the place for all this 'fascinating' stuff.

 

I'll see you on Ebay.

[Rhodes]

Wader - It sounds like you're a man after my own heart, are you sure you weren't the individual who enquired after the memorabilia in the 'boardroom' at Coles Park and was politely told to go away. Do you hold an affinity for the O's then, 3praise style, I only ask as I used to frequent Brisbane Road in the early 70's and the great Bill Roffey was one of my heroes. John Chiedozie is also a good friend of 'the great one', it's a small World isn't it.

[Wader]

It was a lonely life at Brisbane Rd. Esp the Coronation Gardens End. I would say a big space always opened up wherever I was standing - but there were big spaces everywhere.

 

O's away was much more fun, especially Cardiff.

 

Is the Bowater Scott enclosure still at the Matchroom Stadium or has that gone now?

[Rhodes]

I believe it has gone now. My claim to fame was watching Lawrie Cunningham come through the O's Youth and Reserve teams as a sixteen year old, more often than not kick off's were at 2.00 in the Midweek League particularly during 1973/1974 and the power crisis so I wasn't in School much that season. Horace may remember watching Derby that season at Highbury on a Tuesday afternoon in front of 63,000 in a drab 0-0 draw.

[Horace]

Can't say that I remember that one! I still lived in God's own country then and wouldn't have got down to London for a midweek afternoon match. That was the season before Dave Mackay's boys won Derby's second First Division title in three years, proving that there was life after Brian Clough.

[Rhodes]

Horace - Have you seen this link:

 

http://www.youandyesterday.co.uk/articles/Derby_County

 

[Horace]

I have now, thank you - very interesting.

[Rhodes]

Glad I've done something right in your eyes for once, I'm really not the monster you and everyone else seems to think I am you know.

[Football Man]

Originally Posted By: Wader

It was a lonely life at Brisbane Rd. Esp the Coronation Gardens End.

Apart from the FA Cup tie against West Ham in January 1980. I had a flask of tea in a carrier bag for half time and we were all so crammed in on that terrace, I couldn't get to the flask to open it!

[Rhodes]

Wader - You can even have your wedding at Brisbane Road now, how times have changed.

 

http://www.stadiumexperience.com/stadium_leyton_orient.htm

 

[onekeown]

Doubt it, only thing they win is best prog and they did'nt even win that last season. Who's joining the Hodd if u r so sure they r going up?

[Rhodes]

Onekeown - Who is this post directed to, you're certainly spot on that they didn't win the best programme award last season which must be the first time in donkeys years.

[Wader]

Originally Posted By: Football Man

Originally Posted By: Wader

It was a lonely life at Brisbane Rd. Esp the Coronation Gardens End.

Apart from the FA Cup tie against West Ham in January 1980. I had a flask of tea in a carrier bag for half time and we were all so crammed in on that terrace, I couldn't get to the flask to open it!

Indeed, there were plenty(hmmm) of others like that as well. Chelsea, when the wall collapsed and my fav against Middlesborough spring to mind. In the FA Cup semi against theArse I sat in the middle tier front row of the 'new' huge Chelsea stand. Shame about that result but I loved every minute of the atmosphere - same as West Ham away and Ipswich away when Jacko The Cat somehow contrived us the replay - bit of bovver after, but typical carrot crunchers. Happy days. Sniff, getting all misty eyed now - God, how old am I?

[onekeown]

Directed at Tourboy who claims to be joining Brimsdown from Hoddy, but then goes on to say Hoddy will go up. Is it because he's leaving them??

[Jonno]

I'll kick things off with tuppence!

[touryboy]

Jonno

 

Nice to have a fellow hoddy supporter with me!!

 

Now that ritchie has signed cant see a much better team next year now.missing part in the jigsaw.

 

Directed to one keown i say that they will win the league because i knew of the signings they are making and what a good chairman roger is and manager that geoff is.They have a very good reserves.

 

This is the strongest they have been for years and watch them take league 1 double next year.

[Rhodes]

I heard on the grapevine only yesterday that Hoddesdon's squad is very much depleted from last season and a lot of players have left, I don't know how accurate that is but it's perhaps a little premature to suggest there will be no better team next season. What about your Stony Stratford's, Ampthill's, Kentish Town's, Royston's and er Haringey's, I also have a gut feeling that Brache Sparta will pull up trees.